Isaak Bruk

Isaak Semyonovich Bruk (November 8, 1902 to October 6, 1974) was a Soviet electrical engineer and one of the founders of Soviet computing. Elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1939, he led the team at the Energy Institute that filed the Soviet Union's first patent for an electronic digital computer in 1948 together with engineer Bashir Rameev, and directed construction of the M-1, a small stored program electronic computer that became operational in 1952, shortly after Sergei Lebedev's MESM. He went on to direct development of the M-2 computer in 1952 to 1953 and, in 1958, founded and directed the Institute for Electronic Control Machines of the Academy of Sciences, publishing more than one hundred works and holding over fifty patents over his career.